Judicial Branch 
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
7/8/2021
How Democrats Lost the Courts
"Some Democrats are starting to suspect that the story is simpler: They’ve been chumps. They have clung to norms Republicans long ago abandoned. They have championed moderates in order to appeal to their enemies, only to watch those moderates twist in the wind."
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SOURCE: Washington Post
9/24/2020
FDR Tried to Pack the Supreme Court During the Depression. It Was a Disaster for Him.
Franklin Roosevelt's efforts to expand the Supreme Court to overcome conservative hostility to the New Deal didn't go well for him, though patience paid off as his judicial antagonists retired or died during his presidency.
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